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Pathway Description

Taurine and Hypotaurine Biosynthesis

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Metabolic Pathway

The biosynthesis of taurine and hypotaurine is processed by the same protein, glutamate decarboxylase. Hypotaurine is produced by 3-sulfino-L-alanine reacting with glutamate decarboxylase resulting in the release of carbon dioxide and hypotaurine. Taurine is produced by L-cysteate reacting with a glutamate decarboxylase resulting in the release of Taurine and carbon dioxide

References

Taurine and Hypotaurine Biosynthesis References

Kanehisa M, Sato Y, Kawashima M, Furumichi M, Tanabe M: KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jan 4;44(D1):D457-62. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1070. Epub 2015 Oct 17.

Pubmed: 26476454

Kanehisa M, Goto S: KEGG: kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 Jan 1;28(1):27-30.

Pubmed: 10592173

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	3-Sulfinoalanine
	Carbon dioxide
	Cysteic acid
	Hypotaurine
	Taurine

Highlight Proteins

Glutamate decarboxylase

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